How to format your references using the Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Lawler A (2000) ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: New Breed of Protester Asks: Why Not Us? Science 290:1075

A journal article with 2 authors

Kraemer JD, Gostin LO (2012) Public Health and biosecurity. The limits of government regulation of science. Science 335:1047–1049

A journal article with 3 authors

Schweinfest R, Paxton AT, Finnis MW (2004) Bismuth embrittlement of copper is an atomic size effect. Nature 432:1008–1011

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang J-B, Cai Z-C, Zhu T-B, et al (2013) Mechanisms for the retention of inorganic N in acidic forest soils of southern China. Sci Rep 3:2342

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Knudsen S (2005) A Biologist’s Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lansiquot RD (ed) (2016) Technology, Theory, and Practice in Interdisciplinary STEM Programs: Connecting STEM and Non-STEM Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kennedy A, de León I (2011) Frameworks and Integration. In: León I de (ed) Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 101–135

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) Four Myths About IVF In Older Women. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1980) Review of Selected Computer System Procurements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Conlin LD (2012) Building shared understandings in introductory physics tutorials through risk, repair, conflict & comedy. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Fitzsimmons EG (2014) For Families, Memories Mix With Fading Hope. New York Times A8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Kraemer and Gostin 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kraemer and Gostin 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult.
ISSN (print)	0167-6857
ISSN (online)	1573-5044
Scope	Horticulture